Should a nurse or any worker be fired if they refuse to get flu shots?

As ABCNews.com reported, “An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots, stirring up controversy over which should come first: employee rights or patient safety. The hospital imposed mandatory vaccines, responding to rising concerns about the spread of influenza.

” … ‘This is my body. I have a right to refuse the flu vaccine,’ fired nurse Ethel Hoover, 61, told ABCNews.com. ‘For 21 years, I have religiously not taken the flu vaccine, and now you’re telling me that I believe in it’.”

Whaddya think?

— Was the hospital right to fire them or not?

— Should workers who aren’t in health care be required to get flu shots?

— Do you have any personal stories about strange requirements from any place you worked?